>Photos< The opening reception for “In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor” was on Saturday, June 21st at the Laguna Art Museum. The exhibit features the work of over 150 artists whom the curators position as being part of an unrecognized art movement taking place in the U.S. for the past 40 years.

Barry Mcgee

Andrew Schoultz

The show was massively impressive, and similar in scale (if not larger) as The Beautiful Losers exhibit. It was pretty evident looking at the artwork placards that Nike head Mark Parker has amassed an impressive collection of this genre. Parker loaned around a dozen pieces to the show, including standout pieces by: Os Gemeos, Phil Frost, Mark Ryden, Marc Dean Veca, and Todd Schorr (whose 10′ x 12′ commissioned piece made it’s public debut at the opening).

Joe Sorren

Thomas Campbell

Bay Area artists represented in the exhibit included: Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Andrew Schoultz, Thomas Campbell, Tiffany Bozic and Silvia Ji. It was especially nice to see work from Margaret Kilgallen, as her name was not included in any of the print collateral for the show. Definitely worth the trip down to So. Cal to catch this exhibit.

Tiffany Bozic & Henry Darger

Os Gemeos

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June 22 - October 5, 2008. An exhibition catalog with an initial run of 1,000 copies should be available in September, and is currently available for pre-purchase from the museum.

Park Life, a retail and gallery space located in the Inner Richmond, will be unveiling a new sign above their store on Fri, May 9. The sign is a collaboration between local San Francisco artists Andrew Schoultz and Jason Jagel.

The sign took a little bit more time to complete than expected due to red tape, bad  weather and broken bones, but the end result looks pretty spectacular.